If they are split or worn out cut in half and create slug collectors – leave in strategic locations in the garden and then collect the slugs etc – you can decide how you want to dispose of them -my local birds find them a treat!

I often use old tennis balls in my dryer cycles. The balls help fluff around your clothes in the dryer, which gets them more air. Essentially, this helps lessen your dryer running time. I usually use around five balls, and they last forever…so this may notbe that efficient either.

Also, using tennis balls in your dryer cycle is great for balnkets or pillows with feathers, as it helps prevent them from lumping together.

They slit them then use them to put on the bottoms of the metal chair legs in the classrooms at the elementary school here – cuts way down on the noise as the chairs are moved around on the tile floors.

I’m a teacher and I use tennis balls by the boxful or pass them on to other teachers. As mentioned above, it greatly reduces the noise and makes desks easier to move around. At 4 balls to each chair and 4 more per desk, they can be used in great quantities. Also, they get really dirty and need to be replaced after a year or so.

I could use 240 or so in my classroom. I have 30 chairs and 30 desks, 4 legs each. It is an art room, so we move around a lot. If you’ve got a batch you are going to throw away, let me know!mspdgtt@yahoo.com
I have seen the “official” chair feet covers, but they are $1 each–like I said, I teach art and there is no budget for chair feet covers, so free tennis balls would be great!

How about making some poi?
Get two small string bags the kind you put you laundry tablets in and put a ball in each of them. Attach some string to them, and make some finger attachments and you get a great circus toy!

I remember seeing one of the Wildlife Trusts had used a number of tennis balls as homes for dormice (or possibly harvest mice – it was a long time ago). They cut a hole in the tennis ball so the mousy thing could get in and out and put them around the area that they lived. It seemed to be quite successful.

Send them all to me – I am disabled so the only way I can exercise my dog is to go to the park armed with a racket and balls. He runs like crazy but sadly isn’t that great at finding them – and since I can’t go looking for them, we go through quite a few. Any donations are very welcome!

You already have this one, but seriously, it is true, Old Tennis Balls are great for schools. I use them on my art stools…I am an elementary art teacher. It cuts WAY down on noise in the classroom. The technology teacher uses them in her lab as well for the same reason.

They make great inconspicuous hide-y spaces, just make a slit fill with your favourite hiding item, place in an inconspicuous space, although, not where anyone is going to play with it, or throw it out. This is what I used before I had a bank account.

There’s a company in the states of Arkansas and Missouri that take in tennis balls. They re-pump balls that are still intact, reuse the ones that can’t be re-pumped, and then recycle the ones that can’t be re-pumped or reused. Their website is http://www.rebounces.com/

They make great massage devices. Find a flat wall that you can stand up against. Put the tennis ball behind you into the muscle along your shoulder blade, then press your back into the wall. You should be able to move up and down a little bit and massage some of the muscles. Once you’ve found one of your knots, just lean into the ball and breathe deep for as long as you can hold it. You will likely be sore after. You can do this with your feet, your face, your calves, etc.

an idean nobody has thought of yet- take googly eyes, a peice of cardboard cut into a small circle for the base, and a button or bead for the nose. use piepe cleaners for the antennae and anything els you might need for decorationg.
1. use a hot glue gun to glue on the bse. this will help it stand up.
2. glue on the eyes, nose, and antennae, and anything else for decorations.
3. let the glue set for about two minutes.
4. enjoy your new pet!

Try this new way of recycling tennis balls. It is the stress-relief tennis ball. Everything you need to know about this idea is in the short website. Please enjoy with the knowledge that there is another way to recycle old and well-used tennis balls.

Just a thought, because I haven’t tried it, but could they be used inside beanbag chairs- they aren’t as soft as the original stuffing, but they could be tolerably comfortable in their own way and wouldn’t flatten down as the original stuffing does. Hmmm…